Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 60 67
Rank change year-on-year -50 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,555 1,909 3,642
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.68% 4.36% 3.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 4.68% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,110 977 2,704
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -16.13%
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,249 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.93% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,040 40,758 85,662
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.42% 93.05% 83.05%
Number of salaries quoted 45,181 21,501 61,227
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,967 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.01% +1.93% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 5 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -52 1,417 £75,000 +3.45% 701
UK excluding London -100 728 £67,249 -3.93% 409
London 0 706 £85,000 - 349
Work from Home -33 671 £69,310 -0.99% 513
North of England -59 318 £69,310 -4.07% 138
South East -58 180 £67,500 -3.57% 104
North West -67 161 £75,000 +5.26% 97
Yorkshire -31 90 £67,153 -8.87% 29
Midlands -87 76 £67,750 +0.37% 44
South West -80 68 £52,500 -23.39% 53
North East +7 67 £65,000 -6.50% 13
West Midlands -67 55 £80,000 +14.29% 26
East of England -31 39 £60,100 +0.17% 19
Scotland -65 27 £62,500 -20.70% 16
East Midlands -70 20 £65,000 +4.00% 18
Wales -39 17 £53,171 +2.25% 19
Northern Ireland -33 7 £62,500 +25.00% 20
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.16%) Confluence
3 12 (0.77%) Apache
3 12 (0.77%) CMS
3 12 (0.77%) IIS
4 11 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 10 (0.64%) JBoss
6 9 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.39%) WordPress
9 5 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.32%) Drupal
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 4 (0.26%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) Liferay
12 2 (0.13%) Apache Pulsar
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
13 1 (0.064%) CICS
Applications
1 8 (0.51%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.39%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.064%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.064%) Maya
Business Applications
1 6 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.064%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.064%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 836 (53.76%) AWS
2 642 (41.29%) Azure
3 301 (19.36%) GCP
4 248 (15.95%) Serverless
5 154 (9.90%) SaaS
6 138 (8.87%) GitHub
7 133 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (6.50%) Amazon S3
10 92 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
11 83 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 70 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
13 67 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
14 64 (4.12%) Amazon EC2
15 62 (3.99%) Azure Service Bus
16 51 (3.28%) Azure AKS
17 46 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
18 45 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 42 (2.70%) Datadog
19 42 (2.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.86%) Broadband
2 22 (1.41%) Network Security
3 11 (0.71%) DNS
3 11 (0.71%) MQTT
4 8 (0.51%) VPN
5 7 (0.45%) DHCP
5 7 (0.45%) DMARC
5 7 (0.45%) Firewall
5 7 (0.45%) HTTP
6 6 (0.39%) AMQP
6 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.39%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.32%) Internet
7 5 (0.32%) LTE
7 5 (0.32%) RFID
8 3 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
8 3 (0.19%) Modbus
9 2 (0.13%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.13%) SNMP
9 2 (0.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (12.86%) NoSQL
2 197 (12.67%) MongoDB
3 183 (11.77%) PostgreSQL
4 97 (6.24%) MySQL
5 82 (5.27%) Relational Database
6 74 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 72 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
9 52 (3.34%) DynamoDB
10 42 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
11 41 (2.64%) Redis
12 29 (1.86%) Big Data
12 29 (1.86%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.54%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.64%) Pinecone
15 9 (0.58%) Db2
16 7 (0.45%) Power BI
17 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
17 6 (0.39%) Hadoop
17 6 (0.39%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 193 (12.41%) Git
2 148 (9.52%) GitLab
3 129 (8.30%) Jenkins
4 55 (3.54%) TeamCity
5 46 (2.96%) JUnit
6 43 (2.77%) JIRA
7 39 (2.51%) Cucumber
8 32 (2.06%) Mockito
9 31 (1.99%) Cypress.io
10 30 (1.93%) CircleCI
11 29 (1.86%) Maven
12 28 (1.80%) Claude Code
13 20 (1.29%) Selenium
14 16 (1.03%) JMeter
14 16 (1.03%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.96%) Vite
16 12 (0.77%) Bitbucket
17 11 (0.71%) Postman
17 11 (0.71%) REST Assured
18 8 (0.51%) Visual Studio
General
1 431 (27.72%) Finance
2 298 (19.16%) Social Skills
3 159 (10.23%) Banking
4 141 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.85%) Analytical Skills
6 90 (5.79%) Law
7 86 (5.53%) Retail
8 77 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 55 (3.54%) Financial Institution
10 45 (2.89%) Back Office
11 30 (1.93%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (1.48%) Marketing
14 19 (1.22%) Advertising
15 18 (1.16%) Billing
16 14 (0.90%) Aerospace
17 12 (0.77%) Legal
18 10 (0.64%) Front Office
18 10 (0.64%) Manufacturing
19 9 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 528 (33.95%) Developer
2 390 (25.08%) Senior
3 321 (20.64%) Software Engineer
4 224 (14.41%) Architect
5 211 (13.57%) Lead
6 138 (8.87%) Full-Stack Developer
7 133 (8.55%) Java Developer
8 118 (7.59%) Java Engineer
9 116 (7.46%) Senior Developer
10 108 (6.95%) Senior Software Engineer
11 103 (6.62%) .NET Developer
12 87 (5.59%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (4.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 64 (4.12%) Principal Engineer
15 62 (3.99%) Software Developer
16 56 (3.60%) Lead Developer
17 53 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
18 51 (3.28%) Senior Java Engineer
19 47 (3.02%) Java Software Engineer
20 43 (2.77%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 339 (21.80%) React
2 338 (21.74%) .NET
3 285 (18.33%) Node.js
4 269 (17.30%) Spring
5 260 (16.72%) RESTful
6 243 (15.63%) Spring Boot
7 220 (14.15%) REST
8 199 (12.80%) Kafka
9 136 (8.75%) AngularJS
10 115 (7.40%) .NET Core
11 112 (7.20%) ASP.NET
11 112 (7.20%) Vue
12 85 (5.47%) ASP.NET Core
13 84 (5.40%) HTML
14 81 (5.21%) gRPC
15 76 (4.89%) CSS
16 64 (4.12%) .NET Framework
17 62 (3.99%) RabbitMQ
18 55 (3.54%) OAuth
19 54 (3.47%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 449 (28.87%) Cloud Native
2 266 (17.11%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 72 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
5 70 (4.50%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.96%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.89%) Over-the-Top Content
9 35 (2.25%) Algorithms
10 34 (2.19%) Data Structures
11 29 (1.86%) Public Cloud
12 26 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
13 25 (1.61%) Distributed Architecture
14 23 (1.48%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.41%) AI Agents
16 21 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
16 21 (1.35%) PKI
17 20 (1.29%) e-Learning
18 19 (1.22%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 93 (5.98%) Linux
2 38 (2.44%) Windows
3 20 (1.29%) Unix
4 7 (0.45%) Android
4 7 (0.45%) CentOS
4 7 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.32%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.32%) Debian
5 5 (0.32%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.13%) AIX
8 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (50.80%) CI/CD
2 645 (41.48%) Agile
3 570 (36.66%) DevOps
4 566 (36.40%) Software Engineering
5 390 (25.08%) Full-Stack Development
6 388 (24.95%) Containerisation
7 354 (22.77%) Mentoring
8 330 (21.22%) Test Automation
9 308 (19.81%) Event-Driven
10 295 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 291 (18.71%) AI
12 289 (18.59%) Infrastructure as Code
13 276 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
14 199 (12.80%) Scrum
15 188 (12.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 187 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
17 183 (11.77%) Coaching
18 179 (11.51%) TDD
19 175 (11.25%) Clean Code
20 160 (10.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 530 (34.08%) Java
2 399 (25.66%) Python
3 350 (22.51%) SQL
4 339 (21.80%) JavaScript
5 317 (20.39%) C#
6 253 (16.27%) TypeScript
7 123 (7.91%) Go
8 51 (3.28%) Scala
9 49 (3.15%) PHP
10 44 (2.83%) C++
11 43 (2.77%) Bash
12 34 (2.19%) Ruby
13 28 (1.80%) C
14 23 (1.48%) Rust
15 22 (1.41%) PL/SQL
16 21 (1.35%) PowerShell
17 19 (1.22%) Kotlin
18 15 (0.96%) Shell Script
19 14 (0.90%) Bicep
20 12 (0.77%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 186 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 165 (10.61%) Degree
3 125 (8.04%) SC Cleared
4 86 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.86%) AWS Certification
6 30 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 30 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.74%) CISSP
8 26 (1.67%) Azure Certification
9 21 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 18 (1.16%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (0.90%) DBS Check
12 12 (0.77%) CISM
12 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
13 8 (0.51%) PhD
14 7 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.32%) ISACA
15 5 (0.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.07%) QA
2 49 (3.15%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.32%) GDPR
4 34 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.54%) NIST
7 21 (1.35%) SOC 2
8 14 (0.90%) GRC
9 13 (0.84%) WCAG
10 12 (0.77%) NCSC
11 11 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.26%) IFRS
15 3 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.19%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.19%) SEPA
16 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
17 1 (0.064%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 446 (28.68%) Docker
2 17 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.19%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.064%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 477 (30.68%) Kubernetes
2 297 (19.10%) Terraform
3 89 (5.72%) Ansible
4 86 (5.53%) Grafana
5 47 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.61%) Argo
7 23 (1.48%) Kibana
8 14 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.84%) Puppet
10 12 (0.77%) Cilium
11 7 (0.45%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Podman
13 3 (0.19%) Istio
13 3 (0.19%) Rancher
14 2 (0.13%) MIIS
14 2 (0.13%) Nagios
14 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 175 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.18%) Google
3 52 (3.34%) Oracle
4 45 (2.89%) Typelevel
5 24 (1.54%) OpenAI
6 21 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 21 (1.35%) Splunk
7 16 (1.03%) AppDynamics
8 14 (0.90%) IBM
9 13 (0.84%) Red Hat
10 10 (0.64%) Adobe
11 9 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (0.58%) Guidewire
11 9 (0.58%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.58%) SendGrid
11 9 (0.58%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.51%) Cisco
12 8 (0.51%) Databricks
13 7 (0.45%) HubSpot
13 7 (0.45%) SAP